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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"UNCTAD"”.
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Acreage response before and after the deregulation of the South African maize industry : the role of SAFEX in price discovery and price risk managment
… and price risk management. Some have claimed (UNCTAD, 2007) that the South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX) can provide these functions. We test this claim and analyse the impliacation of it.
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Quantifying the trade impact of non-tariff measures: Econometric and CGE Analysis
… Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This thesis comprises four applications. The first (chapter two) focuses on an examination of the effect of animal diseases on beef trade; NTMs are frequently applied to protect importers from diseases. The remaining three applications …
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Uma Análise exploratória de práticas de gestão de TI no setor de serviços financeiros brasileiro
According to reports issued by UNCTAD (UNCTAD 2004), we perceive a service commercialization constant growing during the last twenty years. This fact brought a tough competition influenced by the technological revolution. In this context, the adaptability and anticipation capacities are potential …
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CSR indikátorok megjelenése az integrált vállalatirányítási rendszerekben = The connection of CSR indicators and enterprise resource planning system
… alapján 94%-ban már most is megtalálható az UNCTAD irányelvek alapján létrehozott indikátorrendszerben található információ. Az általam bemutatott CSR indikátorrendszerek nagyobb részt alkalmasak az integrálásra, nyilvános (vállalati) jelentésekben is megtalálhatók azok az információk, …
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Aid-Foreign Direct Investment Linkages: A Case Study of Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda.
… of 6 per cent for a considerable period of time (UNCTAD, 2000) to tackle their high level of poverty and under-development. The size of this challenge is highlighted by the decline in economic growth and trade of the region's economies over the last three decades. For instance, only 2 of 39 SSA …
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Macroeconomic Determinants of Economic Growth after financial sector in Tanzania
… of Finance (MOF) and multilateral organizations; UNCTAD, IMF and WDI. The data covered the period spanning from 1995 to 2013 and were interpolated in quarterly series. The findings indicate that budget deficits adversely affected economic growth in Tanzania during the period under study. From the …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… COMESA statistics, Zambia statistic agency, UNCTAD and Zambia Development Agency. Linear regression analysis was used to examine the relationships between FDI inflows and GDP growth. The paper employs linear regression analysis, Granger causality test, Johansen cointegration technique and …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… COMESA statistics, Zambia statistic agency, UNCTAD and Zambia Development Agency. Linear regression analysis was used to examine the relationships between FDI inflows and GDP growth. The paper employs linear regression analysis, Granger causality test, Johansen cointegration technique and …
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Strategic management of hotel multinationals : environment, management, performance
… in developing but also in developed countries (UNCTAD, 2007). According to World Tourism Organization (WTO), the European Union (EU) numbered six Member States among the top 10 countries in the world welcoming the largest number of international tourist arrivals. Within the EU, receipts from …
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Foreign direct investment from China: implications for British business partners
… the third largest outward investor in the world (UNCTAD 2013). As a relatively new phenomenon the outward investment of Chinese multinationals has not been researched comprehensively. This is especially true of Chinese multinationals undertaking investment activities in advanced …
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O comércio dos estados do nordeste do Brasil com a China na 1ª década do século XXI : desempenho, problemas e oportunidades
… por órgãos internacionais como a WTO e UNCTAD, juntamente com estudo referente à Vantagem Comparativa Revelada dos países, pesquisa esta realizada pelo Departamento de Economia da Universidade de Utrecht - Holanda. O arcabouço teórico subjacente a toda a pesquisa foram os Teoremas de …
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Corporate governance deficiencies in the regulation and disclosure of director remuneration in the South African context of mergers and acquisitions
… Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) both cited failures in corporate governance, the practices of director remuneration and inadequate regulation and control thereof, as specific causes of the financial crises of 2008. The reason for this is that remuneration systems employed …
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Pelno perkėlimo politika: Lyginamoji prevencinės politikos ir perkeliamo pelno masto Lietuvoje ir Vidurio Europoje analizė /
… JAV dol. mokesčių pajamų. Šiame tyrime remiantis UNCTAD teorinėmis prielaidomis apskaičiuota, kad iš Vidurio Eurpos ir Baltijos regiono šalių perkeliamas pelnas siekia 0,7-3 % nuo šalies BVP. Šioje šalių grupėje mažu perkeliamo pelno mastu pasižymėjo Lietuva, Latvija, Lenkija, Slovakija, Slovėnija …
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The impact of maritime trade disruptions on food security: the case of imported calories
… of goods and services (Brancaccio, et al. 2020; UNCTAD, 2024; Wang, et al., 2024). Key maritime passageways, such as the Panama Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Turkish Straits, the Suez Canal, and the Strait of Malacca, facilitate global shipping but often face heavy congestion (Bailey and …
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COVID-19, capital flows and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) as least developed countries (LDCs) requiring significant assistance. Moreover, the countries in the region experience some of the lowest inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), both in comparison to other regions and to the flow of …
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THE BALL IS IN THEIR COURT: CHANGING ROLE OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES FROM EMERGING NATIONS
… featured in the Fortune 500 list to 47 in 2005) (UNCTAD, 2006). While these Emerging Nation Multinational Companies (EMCs) are gaining a strong foothold in the global economy, some evidence also suggests that their foreign direct investments are being targeted towards advanced economies in both …
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Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Sahara Africa.
… The researcher also utilised data sourced from UNCTAD, ISC088, QLFS, QES and the Department of Statistics South Africa to ascertain the influence of inward FDI in the participation and positioning of South Africa in the Global Value Chain. The findings show that an increase in efficiency, a …
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The Implementation of the Gats and its impact upon tourism development.
… the world, during the past decade. The UNCTAD report (1999) states that both globalisation and liberalisation have increased the potential for international trade in goods and services to become an unprecedented engine of growth and an important mechanism for integrating countries into …
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FDI Determinants and the effect of FDI on Economic Growth of the East African Community (EAC)
… Tanzania, and Rwanda) were sourced from the UNCTAD database. The report from our empirical investigation on the FDI determinants to the EAC region shows that the region received market, efficiency, and resource seeking FDI in the long-run vis-à-vis short-run period. And that resource and …
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On the Evolution of the National Design System: The Catch-up Perspective
Product combines function and form. This research focuses on the evolution of the product form and its corresponding system at national and international level. With the rise of the intangible economy, the evidence in this study presents that the global economy during the past decades has witnessed …